Category: FCPA

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act “Crackdown”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 28, 2009
Categories In FCPA

Don’t miss The WSJ’s article on what it characterizes as the Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act “crackdown”. At least 120 companies are under investigation, according to Mark Mendelsohn, a deputy chief in the Justice Department division overseeing the prosecutions, up from 100 at the end of last year. The effort began in the […]

Guilty Pleas in FCPA Case

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 15, 2009
Categories In FCPA

From DOJ comes word of these FCPA guilty pleas. Juan Diaz, 51, of Miami, pleaded guilty today in Miami before U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez to a one-count information charging him with conspiring to make corrupt payments to a foreign government official for the purpose of securing business advantages for three different Miami-Dade County […]

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Cases

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 8, 2009
Categories In FCPA

The Department of Justice issued press releases on two Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases. In the first, there was a guilty plea. In the second, six former executives of a company were charged. The second case also involves alleged violations of the Travel Act.